Lion Owning TikToker Faces Jail Time After His Lion Escaped (Was Tied to a Pole) and Attacked an 11-Year Old Child
Dexerto – A Thai TikToker is facing up to six months in jail after his pet lion escaped its cage and attacked an 11-year-old boy, as well as a man who tried to save him.
The shocking incident took place on October 4 in the Bo Phloi district of Kanchanaburi, Thailand, and was caught on camera.
In the viral footage, the lion, a one-year-old female named Mahae Si, can be seen running loose in the street as people, including the young victim, try to flee while screams echo in the background.
According to local reports, the boy was walking home around 11pm after playing with friends when the lion pounced on him. A 43-year-old man, Sarawut Tokaeo, rushed to help but was also attacked, suffering a deep leg wound that required stitches.
Luckily, Tokaeo was able to hit the lion multiple times, causing it to release the boy. Both victims were hospitalized but are said to be in stable condition.
Stephen A. Smith once said if Player A makes a dirty play resulting in the injury of Player B, and the injury forces Player B to miss games, that Player A should be forced to sit out for the same amount of games. Stephen A. Smith has had a lot of dumb takes in his life. That one is dumb too from the standpoint of it would be impossible to enforce fairly across the board (what qualifies as a "dirty play", what if Player B had a pre-existing injury, what if Player B kinda fucking deserved it, etc). But the premise of it is solid. If a player make an unequivocally 100% piece of shit dirty play that results in his victim missing the remainder of the season, I don't hate that player being forced to miss the same amount of time.
That's a long drawn out way of saying "an eye for an eye". But the same rule should apply to lion owners. If you lion bites a man's leg, you're sentenced to stepping in a bear trap. If your lion rips an arm off, you're getting your arm amputated. If your lion eats your neighbor's child, I'm sorry, but your son will have to be thrown into a pit of hungry lions. If your lion inflicts any sort of damage on an innocent civilian, whatever damage your lion caused should be inflicted unto you. Throw some jail time on top of it too.
Parinya now faces charges under Thailand’s Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act, which prohibits recklessly releasing or failing to control wild animals. If convicted, he could be jailed for up to six months and/or fined 50,000 baht (around $1,300).
We gotta teach these lion owning assholes a lesson. Lion owners (and exotic animal owners in general) are truly some of the most selfish assholes on the planet. Obviously there's a bit of a grey area there when it comes to people who take in sick animals that aren't capable of surviving on their own. If you're helping rehabilitate an animal that's a whole different story. Every lion owning situation isn't the same. But there is zero reason a healthy lion should be domesticated (or tried to be) and living in a house with human beings. No lion wants to be captive. Even zoos are kinda fucked up in their own right, but at least in zoos the animals are raised by trained professionals in a simulated habitat, typically amongst other animal friends. But a man living in a house with his lion out front tied to a pole? Fuck this guy. This guy should have been jailed and stripped of lion long before it had a chance to attack an 11-year old.
I'm sure people who own lions would say that I have no idea how sweet and loving lions really are, and how their lion loves them more than anything in the world, and how they share a special bond that non-lion owners could simply never understand. Well no shit. If you commandeer a lion cub and raise him as your own, and you're the only person who feeds him, and he relies on you for everything in his life, no shit the lion loves you. You're literally all he knows because you've deprived him of the opportunity to live an appropriate lion lifestyle. Your lion is a victim of Stockholm Syndrome.
And the morality of owning a lion all just icing on the "why you shouldn't own a lion" cake. You shouldn't own a lion because it's fucking dangerous. No matter how well you've trained your apex predator cat, you can never guarantee that you have him (or her) under control. Even Sigfried & Roy's tiger eventually turned on them. Eventually your big cat is going to get sick and tired of being caged and constricted, you're not going to realize it's happening, and the moment you get too comfortable that 400-pound beast is going to strike.
I really hate these wild animal owning scumbags. They say they love animals, but they don't. They love the way they make them feel. They deprive them of a life so that they can derive joy from them. They love them like a mom with Muchausen by Proxy love's her child. They keep them trapped inside at an arms length and raise them to believe that they're incapable of living a life outside of your walls. And much like Gypsy Rose Blanchard, eventually that lion is going to wise up and take matters into their own hands.
P.S. Thankfully in Thailand they don't immediately kill the animals who attack people because they've been put in a bad situation by a shitty person. Turns out this lion kinda got exactly what he wanted. He's been upgraded from "tied to pole in front yard" to "licensed wildlife breeding center". That's at least a little bit of a come up. I think... I hope...
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Wildlife officials later seized Mahae Si and transferred her to a conservation facility. It’s believed she’ll be relocated to a licensed wildlife breeding center.